Quotes About Wealth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.

I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.